Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-18

the SOW wild oats getthem to SOW wheat
and barley. You fill the bushel measure
with good corn and there will be no room
for husks.
Glorious Alfred Cookmsn was convert
ed at ten years of ags. At Carlisle, Penn
during the progress of a religious meet
ing in the Methodist church, while many
we're kneeliDg at the foot Of the altar, this
BOY knelt in corner of the church all by
himself, and ssid: "Precious Savior,
thou art saving others-ob, wilt thou not
save me?" A Presbyterian elder kuelt
beside him and led him into the light.
Enthroned Alfred Cookmsn! Tell
me from the skies, were you
converted too early But
cannot hear his answer. 1t is overpow
cred by the huzzss Of the tens Of thous-
ands who were brought to God through
his ministry. Isaac Watts, the great
Christian poet, was covered st nine
years of age. bert Hall, the great
Baptist evangelist, was converted st
twelve years of age. Jonathan Edwards,
the greatest of American logiclans, was
converted at seven years of age.
Ga for one generation of holy men and
women. Shall it be the mex? Fathers
and mothers, you under God are to de-
eide whether from your families shall go
towards, inebriates, counterfeiters, bias
phemers, and whether there shall b.
those bearing your image and carrying
your name fostering in the low haunts Of
vice, and laundering in dissipation, and
making the midnight of their lives horrid
with q long howl OF ruin, or whether
from
YOUR FAMILY AFFAIRS
shall come the Christians, the reformers.
the teachers, the ministers of Christ, the
comforters of the troubled, the healer5 of
the sick, the enacters of good laws, the
founders of charitable Institutions, aud
CREST msny who shall in the humber
spheres of toll and usefulness serve God
and the best interests of the human raca.
You cam OF as parents shirk the respon
sibility. God has charged you with
mission, and all the thrones of heaven are
waiting to see whether you will do your
duty. We must not forget that it is not
so much what we teach our children as
what we are in their presence. We wish
them to be holler than we are, but the
probability is that they will only be re-
productions of our own character. Ger
man literature has much to say Of the
"spectre of Broken" Among those
mountains travellers in certain conditions
of the atmosphere see themselves
copied on gigantic scale in
the clouds. At first the travel
ers do not realize that it is
themselves On larger scale. When they
lift hand or move the head this monster
specter does the same, and with suca en-
lsrgement of proportions that the scene
is most exciting, and thousands have gone
to that place just to behold the specter of
Broken. The probability is that some of
our faults which we consider small and
insignificant, If we do not put an end to
them, will be copied on larger scale in
the eyes of our children, and perhaps di-
lated and exaggerated into spectral pfO
portions. You need not go so far eff as
the Broken to see that process. The
first thing in importance in the education
of our children is to make ourselves, by
the grace of God, fit examples to be
copied. TIE day will come when you
must confront that child, not in the
church pew on a calm Sabbath, but amid
the CONSERVATION OF the rising dead and
the flying heavens and burning world.
From your side that son or daughter,
bone OF your bone, heart of your heart,
the fathers brow his brow, the mothers
eye his eye, shall go forth to an eternal
destiny. What will be your Joy il ct last
you hear their ct in the same golden
highway and hear their voices in the
same rapturous song, Illustrations, while
the eternal ages last, of what faithful
parent could, under God, accomplish. l
was re ding of a mother who dying had
all her
CHILDREN ABOUT HER
and took each one of them by the hand
and asked them to meet her in heaven,
and with tears and sobs such as those
only know who have stood by the death
bed of good old mother, they all prom
Used. But there was young man CT
nineteen who had been very wild and
reckless and hard and proud, and when
she took his hand she said: "Now, my
b, y, want you to promise me before l
die that you will become Christian and
meet me in heaven" The young
man made no answer, for there
was so much for him to give up
il he made and kept such a promise.
But the aged mother persisted in say
ing:
"You won't deny me that before 60,
Will your This parting must not be for
ever. Tell me now you will serve God
and meet me ia the land where there is no
parting" Q1sking with emotion he
stood, making up his mind and hating
and hesitating, but at last his stubborn
ness yielded. and he threw his arms
around his mothers neck and saiG: eyes,
mother; will, l will" And as he fin
ished the last word of his promise her
spirit assembled. l thank God the young
man kept his promise. Yes, be kept it.
May God give ell mothers and fathers the
gladness of their children's salvation.
For all who are irving to do their duty
to their children I quote the tremendous
passage: "Trein up child in the way in
which he should go, and when he is old
he will not depart from it" II through
discipline and prayer and cody example
you are acting upon that child, you have
the right to expect him to Grow up
virtuous. And how m.ny tears OF Joy
you will shed when you see your child
honorable and JUS, and truthful and
Christian and successtul-a holy man amid
world of dishonesty, a cody woman in s
world of frivolous pretension. When you
come to die they will gather to bless. your
LAST hours. They will push back the
white locks on your cold forehead and
say: "What good father he always was
to me-" They will fold your hands
peaceful ly and say; 'sDe6r mother! She
Is gone. Her trou5IeAzre all over. Don't
ssseI look besutifgk3n
"ssution-Myonly Dr.eIsasc Thsnp-
sons Eye W2er.4 None ether geahine."
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